On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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Starfish don't have brains.
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When you fall in love, that 'high' feeling is caused by a flood of dopamine that is similar to that of cocaine.
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An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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